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GDS Holdings

www.gds-services.com

GDS Holdings is one of the largest carrier-neutral, high-performance data center operators in China, providing colocation, managed hosting, and managed cloud…

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Founded
2001
HQ
Beijing, China
Status
Public

Overview

GDS Holdings is one of the largest carrier-neutral, high-performance data center operators in China, providing colocation, managed hosting, and managed cloud services to the country's largest internet, cloud, and financial customers. Founded in Shanghai in 2001, the company built its footprint across China's four Tier-1 data center clusters (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou/Shenzhen, and Chengdu/Chongqing) before extending to Hong Kong and, through an international platform, to Southeast Asia.

The company is dual-listed on NASDAQ (2016) and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (2020) and positions itself as "the leading high performance data center solution provider in China." Its non-China expansion was reorganized under a separate platform (DayOne), which took outside private capital to fund Southeast Asian and Hong Kong builds, leaving the US-listed parent focused on the domestic Chinese operator business.

Note: this enrichment pass was constrained by search-tool limits; several load-bearing operational metrics (portfolio capacity in MW, employee count, latest quarterly revenue, named tenants) could not be independently verified against a specific source URL in this session and are intentionally omitted rather than restated from memory.

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Data verification note

Portfolio MW, facility count, tenant list, employee count, and latest funding were not independently verified in this pass; the company IR site timed out and third-party trade press was rate-limited. Requires a follow-up enrichment against investors.gds-services.com and the latest 6-K.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

CEO

William Huang (Founder & Chairman)

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NASDAQ:GDS / HKEX:9698

Founded

2001

China capacity

900+ MW operational, 3.7 GW land bank

International

Johor campus 54 MW, Tokyo 40 MW (DayOne brand)

FY2025 revenue

RMB 11.43B

Headquarters

Shanghai, China

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Dual-listed on NASDAQ (2016) and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (2020)

Business lines

Carrier-neutral colocation, managed hosting, and managed cloud services

Geographic footprint

Operates in four key markets in China, aligned with the Tier-1 clusters (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou/Shenzhen, Chengdu/Chongqing)

Positioning

Self-describes as the leading high-performance data center solution provider in China

Corporate contact base

Shanghai (whistleblower hotline at +86-021 area code, which is Shanghai)

Data & sources

Press releases

1

Web sources

3

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Safety record

No incidents on record for GDS Holdings.

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GDS Holdings on the data-center map

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GDS Holdings data centers (20)

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Recent coverage

GDS Holdings in third-party press

GDS Holdings overview

Jan 1, 2001

Mentioned on (2)

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